Netscouters

Netscouters is an investment ecosystem for football. It’s aim is to empower amateur teams around the world to raise new football superstars and to create football-related content, while giving fans and investors an opportunity to support their favourite players and earn money with good ROI.

How it works:

Netscouters creates a platform for the football industry. Sure, major market players like La Liga and Premier League in UK earn in billions of dollars, but there are profits to be made in local federations and football related content. Also, searching for young prospective players is still done by going to the location and watching a team train. Netscouters uses blockchain, smart contracts and tokenization to take the industry forward.

Amateur clubs can receive support of investors, brands and professional clubs for a fee of 50 EUR a year per player. This allows them to purchase equipment and other things needed to further skills of their players. Investors receive 20% of the profits a club made in a season.

All player info and their progress is accessible on the platform, so that investors are able to mitigate where to put their their money. This also provides professional scouters with an opportunity to look for young talents and monitor their development.

The platform features a video streaming module that provides clubs with their own channels to make content and earn money on a pay per view basis from advertisers. In case you are not into football, football related content receives millions of views on Youtube, with fan channels having more subscribers than professional team’s channels. Clubs receive 70% of the income, 30% is taken as a platform fee. Users get rewarded for watching ads as well.

Brands of sports goods can sell their products directly to clubs on the marketplace that Netscouters provides. All sorts of stuff that football club needs is presented there, equipment, maintenance, transportation, supplies, etc.

Innovation:

Even though Netscouters does not introduce any major improvements in technology, it definitely helps the industry. It allows agents to look for young talents in a way more effective manner and enables amateur clubs to raise future football superstars.

Innovation score: High

Token value:

There are two types of coins on Netscouters platform. OutsCoin is a utility token of the platform, that is sold during the ICO. It is used to pay platform fees and purchase products on the market. Its value is tied to the volume of transactions on the platform. The amount of football clubs in the world and the amount of fees they can possibly pay, combined with advertising revenue is surely going to get OUT’s value growing.

There’s another token, OutInveCoin, that is handed to club’s investors to ensure they get 20% off of it yearly earnings during two years.

Token value score: High

White paper:

The white paper Netscouters presents explains the world of football, the problems it faces, a solution in the form of blockchain driven platform. All peculiarities of their platform are outlined as well, showing financial forecasts and token value estimates. Business model was not described in a single section, but elements of it are mentioned all over the white paper.

White paper score: High

Roadmap:

The company was founded in 2016, the first web version was released in 2017. In May of the same year testing phase started. In September 2018 the platform will see a pilot start with Italian football teams. In December the platform will be publicly launched in alpha. The first season will begin in March 2019, in May the company will start marketing in EU. First worldwide season will start in September 2019.

On 2020 the company plans to enter new sports and USA market.

Roadmap score: High

Business model:

Netscouters platform is a pay per use platform. It takes fees off of football clubs, 50 EUR a month per player in OUT equivalent. It also charges for watching player statistics and takes a 30% cut from advertising. It also charges a commission fee from transactions on the platform.

Marketing efforts include contacting football federations of different countries to influence amateur clubs and sports media to reach a wider audience.

Business model score: High

Team:

The company’s managing board includes the CEO, who is IT manager and entrepreneur, another IT manager, and a former professional football player. The person in charge of marketing has extensive experience in communication, advertising, interaction design, and brand consulting. CFO has been responsible for treasury and finance accounts at Grupo Forus. The team also has a development department and features a lot of scouts, ex-footballers and coaches.

The advisory board includes a director of a marketing agency and an ICO consultant who has experience in working with international technology companies and government of Canary Islands.

Team score: High

Competitors:

As far as football investment startups go, Netscouters seem to be somewhat unique. Most startups focus on betting as it is more profitable for the company, but this project focuses on investment as it is more profitable for the users. They have good chances of entering the market thanks to connections of former football players in their teams.

Competitors score: High

Overall thoughts:

Netcouters uses an unorthodox idea in the field of ICOs to take the football industry to a whole new level. It revolutionizes the way things are done in scouting. OUT can be a good investment.